Appendage to showeb-baths



UNTTED sTATEs PATENT oEEIoE.

WILLIAM MILLER, OF 'WAL'II-IAM, MASSACHUSETTS.

APPENDAGE TO SHOWER-BATHS.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 18,349, dated October 6, 185'?.

To all whom 'it may concern:

Be it known that I, VILLIAM MILLER, of IValtham, in the county ofMiddlesex and State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement inShower-Baths; and I do hereby declare that the same is fully describedand represented in the following specification and the accompanyingdraw# ings, of which- Figggure 1, is a top view of a shower bathconstructed with my improvement. Fig. 2, a front elevation of itexhibiting the door of the bath as open. Fig. 3, a longitudinal andvertical section of the bath. Fig. 4l, a horizontal section of it.

The nature of my improvement consists in combining with the bath, abrush. and mechanism for operating the same in order that a person whileWithin the standing chamber of the said bath and the said brush is inmotion, may bring his back or other part of the body in contact with thebrush so as to have such part cleansed or brushed.

Almost every person who has been in the habit of using a shower bath hasexperienced a difficulty in applying a brush to the upper part of hisback.

It is the object of my invention to remedy this diiiiculty. And toaccomplish this I arrange within the standing chamber, a, of a showerbat-h A, a brush, B, affixed to a vertical slide rod, C, by means of aset screw, the brush being movable on the slide rod and so as to becapable of being adjusted at such a position thereon as circumstancesmay require. This slide rod at its upper end should be hinged or jointedto the pitman,

D, extending from a bell crank E, of a horizontal shaft F, arranged inthe upper part of the bath as shown in Figs. l, and 3. Such shaft is tobe provided with a pulley, G, at one end of it, an endless band I-Ibeing carried around the said pulley and another pulley, I, arrangedwithin the bath chamber and on a shaft, K, carrying a crank L, as shownin the drawings. Instead of arranging the crank within the bath chamberso as to be easily accessible to a person standing in the showeringchamber thereof, it may be disposed on the outside of the bath as shownat L', a pulley, I', band, II, and pulley G, being disposed within thebat-h and with respect to the rotary shaft in its upper part as shown inthe drawings.

By laying hold of and revolving either crank, a reciprocating motionwill be imparted to the brush and should a person, while standing in thebath and the brush is in motion bring his back or body in contact withthe brush, he may brush or cleanse that part so exposed to the brush.

I claim- Combining with a shower bath, a brush and mechanism to impartto the said brush, movements, whereby a person while in the bath mayhave his back, or other part of his body brushed or cleansedsubstantially as specified.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my signature this 81st day ofJuly, 1857.

WM. MILLER.

Witnesses:

R. I-I. EDDY, F. P. HALE, Jr.

